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My name is Matilda Pembury Smith. I am currently in my third year at The University of Manchester in the UK reading Zoology. My main areas of interest are sexual selection and mimicry between organisms. I will be an intern with Erik Svensson.
I am a 25 year old guy from Riga, Latvia. I did my Bachelor at the University of Latvia and my Master at Uppsala University. I am interested in studying sex differences, sexual selection and evolution and development of sex.
My PhD project ”The genomic basis of the response to sex-limited selection in a hermaphrodite” will be conducted at the Section for Evolutionary Ecology under supervision of Dr. Jessica Abbott and co-supervised by Prof. Bengt Hansson and Dr. Nils Cronberg. The aim of this project will be to investigate the genetics of sex differences using experimentally evolved populations of the hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum ligano that have been selected for male or female fitness.
I’m Illiam Jackson and have just started my position as a post-doc with the Uller Group after completing my PhD at Uppsala University. My PhD was an investigation into morphological evolution in the Cambrian. It focused on exploring concepts in evolutionary theory not previously examined in a palaeontological context such as stabilizing selection and genetic assimilation.
Using a morphometric approach to quantifying and analyzing changes of shape between closely related species as well as within a single species through time, the project illustrated the potential for new modes of analysis that quantify morphological variation along continuous spectra rather than into discrete units and characters.
The interpretation of the project’s results was conducted in the conceptual framework of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and identified patterns of phenotypic plasticity and subsequent accommodation, or genetic assimilation, consistent with those predicted by a model of evolution that incorporates a reciprocal relationship between development and environment. In other words, the results suggest that developmental bias and phenotypic plasticity may play very important roles in evolution even, or especially, across geological timescales.
My work with the Uller Group will continue the study of these topics as well as working towards synthesizing this deep-time perspective with the fields of evolutionary biology and theory. I will also be collaborating with other group members by employing and developing the morphometric methods mentioned above in the study of extant organisms.
I have a broad background in evolutionary biology and even broader interest so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like to discuss or ask anything, or have ideas for potential collaboration!
Gårdagens slåtter av ängarna runt Ekologihuset blev av trots vädret. Regnet upphörde i lagom tid till det var dags att sätta igång med SACTs slåttergille. Själva gillet bestod (mer …)
My name is Gustaf Ekelund Ugge, and I have now returned to the Aquatic Ecology group to do my PhD. I did my bachelor and master studies at Lund University, with a main focus on ecotoxicology. In 2015 I gained a Master’s degree in biology and ecology, and have since been working for Toxicon, an environmental consultant agency, with ecotoxicological testing and environmental risk assessment.
My research will focus on application of transcriptomics in assessment of environmental pollution, and will be part of a collaboration project involving Lund University and University of Skövde, as well as two private companies, Toxicon and TATAA Biocenter.
När forskarskolan GENECO hade sommarmöte i Malmö igår blev det äntligen sommarvärme. På gott och ont. Värmen i föreläsningssalen på St Gertruds konferensanläggning var lite (mer …)
Mitt namn är Frida Rosengren och jag är ny bibliotekarie i Biologibiblioteket. Jag disputerade 2015 i ämnet växtekologi och systematik. Nu har jag tagit bibliotekarieexamen och återvänder till Ekologihuset i en ny roll. Som bibliotekarie kommer jag att arbeta med exempelvis inköp, användarstatistik och undervisning. Välkommen till biblioteket med dina frågor! Jag bor i Dalby med min man och två barn. På min fritid tycker jag om att leta strandfynd, botanisera, spela rollspel, rita samt läsa, främst science fiction och serier.
My name is Frida Rosengren, I am the new librarian in the Biology library. I finished my PhD thesis in 2015 within the subject plant ecology and systematics. Now I have a degree in library and information science and have returned to the Ecology building in a new role. As a librarian, I will work with for example acquisition, user statistics and teaching. Welcome to the library with your questions! I live in Dalby with my husband and two kids. On my spare time I like beachcombing, botanizing, role playing games, drawing and reading, foremost science fiction and graphic novels.
My current postdoctoral research is conducted within the Lund Vision Group under the supervision of Dr Marie Dacke and Dr Basil el Jundi. It sets out to establish how dung beetles are capable of orientating away from their dung pile using multiple sensory modalities, specifically wind and light information.
My scientific career started at Newcastle University, UK, where in 2010 I completed my BSc in Biology. I stayed on there to complete my MRes in Animal Behaviour in the Institute of Neuroscience. I then moved to Brighton in 2012 to start my PhD in Neuroscience in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex.
I fredags var det dags för vårt eget 350-årsfirande. Festgruppen, bestående av Christina Rengefors, Jep Agrell och Viki Kaleskovska, hade fixat (mer …)
In 2014 I have completed my bachelor`s degree in microbiology from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Biotechnical faculty) and in 2017 master`s degree in microbiology from University of Innsbruck, Austria (Faculty of Biology).
Currently, I am working on my PhD project at Lund University. The PhD project is integrated into a new Biodiversity project that started in January (2017) and is a collaboration among 5 European partners. The aim of the PhD project is to provide knowledge of the functional diversity of microorganisms in soils by identifying key functional genes and the organisms behind the genes.
Docent Lillemor Lewan, Lund, har som tidigare meddelats avlidit i en ålder av 82 år. Lillemor Lewan var tidigare universitetslektor vid zoofysiologiska institutionen och vid sin bortgång emerita vid biologiska institutionen. Närmast anhöriga är maken Nils och barnen Lisbet, Tomas och Mats med familjer.
Lillemor föddes i Lund och växte upp i Stockholm. Efter studentexamen valde hon att studera vid Lunds universitet. Där lärde hon känna Nils i Lunds studenters folkdanslag. Hon studerade kemi, botanik och zoologi till en fil.mag.-examen och fick därmed kompetens som gymnasielärare i dessa (mer …)
Idag höll Martin N. Andersson sin docentföreläsning ”The Human Sense of Smell” i Blå Hallen.
Martin berättade att mycket av vad vi tror att vi vet om (mer …)
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